Chapter 90 the end of politics

At the end of politics is compassion, at the end of Mateo and Julia is Nicola. There is a scene in "A Splendid Life" like this: the riot policeman Matteo's colleague Rujic was beaten to paralysis by left-wing demonstrators. His wife Julia, a radical leftist, quit at the time. "Too bad you're on the wrong side" "Are you sure? So what's right? Is the poor man's side right?" "right." "Rujic knows poverty better than you. He's a poor man, not the man who beat him into a vegetable. We're eating cake here, and he's in the hospital."

"I've had enough of your trash talk!" Nicholas had to come out to reconcile: "Please stop talking!" Julia turned to play the piano, and Mateo teased: "Your wife is good." Nicholas laughed: "You two get along well." She It's the type that's always right. "" Well, the same type as you. "Then they both smiled. There are several similar situations in "It's Splendid Lives"!An argument full of gunpowder, and finally ended in a warm chat and laugh.It was like this when Nikolay's parents quarreled.At the sister's wedding, the dialogue between Nikolai's dismissed worker friend and banker friend is like this.The same is true when the Nicholas father and daughter debate whether a corrupt official deserves sympathy.The daughter explained this like this: I love you so much, I won't really fall out with you.

"I love you so much, I won't really fall out with you", seems to reveal the secret of the bifurcation of comedy and tragedy in the world.Many times, you think that what you do is out of love, but it is not enough love.Other times, you are so busy loving human beings vigorously that you forget to love the people around you one by one. Neither Mateo nor Julia has gone into this truth.They all tried to change the world around them through political struggle, but found that the premise of political struggle is to grasp the truth, and no one in this world has exactly grasped the truth.Julia became more and more radical in the left-wing movement of the 1960s, abandoned her family and defected to a terrorist organization, engaged in assassination work, and finally became a prisoner, but the world did not change for the better.Mateo has been fighting against the ugly system all his life, from the dead examiner to the brutal mental hospital, from the hierarchical army to the shady police station, but he was beaten badly, and in a New Year's Eve At night, he jumped off the balcony facing the fireworks blooming outside the window.

But Julia's husband, Mateo's brother Nicola, is different.He is gentle without being passive, discerning right from wrong without being impatient.For him, transforming the world is not about uprooting a system, but starting with giving little by little warmth to those around him.Zuozhen, the girl in the film who was illegally electrocuted in a mental hospital, was not rescued by the leftist Julia or the policeman Mateo in the end, but slowly recovered under the care of Nicola for decades.When Zozhen completely shut herself off, he said to her: Come and water my plants every day, they need you.

If changing the world is a race between the tortoise and the hare, Mateo is the hare, and Nicola is the tortoise that runs slowly but goes far.Mateo also gradually realized this in the constant bumping into the wall. How he wished he could have that kind of patience. When he met the lovely girl Merina, he introduced himself like this: My name is Nicola. Perhaps it is not politics, religion, or law that guards the bottom line of our behavior, but what Nicholas' examiner called "compassion."I am always horrified when I read about how a certain faction beat a certain faction during the Cultural Revolution or the atrocities in the Nazi concentration camps, because it is all in the name of false truth.What if everyone had a bottom line of compassion?What about a bottom line that politics, law, and religion cannot break through?Perhaps the hope of the world is not to discover the truth, but to ask a question, so what if the truth is discovered.

What impressed me the most about this movie is that everyone in the movie is so beautiful, beautiful but not false.I think the director is really a kind person, it can be said that he is as tender as water.He makes aggressive Julia a good piano player, irascible Mateo a bookworm, Merina a son after losing Mateo, and Nicola a new love after his daughter leaves.He contemplates, sculpts, and soothes every tossing soul, making you feel that the world can be better, is getting better, and will get better - as long as you don't give up, as Nikolai's father reminds you. Anyone around you, discover their charm: "You have to make Julia play, tell her how beautiful she is, you have to say, Julia, play for me".